The digital future is our digital present Rosalía Valero
P » LT » Don Genaro
The digital future is here now. We should really be talking about the digital present as mobile learning continues to gain fast traction around the edges of traditional education. Let’s talk about the digital knowledge, skills, and tools that language educators should have for teaching and learning, for example: » the digital disruption: What is it? How has it affected our life? » the digital classroom: BYOD (bring your own device), the digital language context » skills and knowledge for digital language teaching/learning: sourcing and evaluating materials, planning and much more. Rosalia Valero is Head of Assessment Services for Cambridge English Language Assessment in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. She holds an MSc in Teaching English from the University of Aston.
Teaching for Success: Assessing Learners Kim Beadle
W » TE&A » Doña Socorro
Everyone has their own methods and beliefs around assessment and evaluation; Should it be done? How should it be done? When should it be done?. Who should do it?... In this workshop we will look at Assessment FOR Learning (AFL), a more motivating, relevant and useful process of evaluating for both the learner and the teacher as it allows results to be fed back in to a course for immediate development and promotes achievement rather than failure. We will look at the benefits of AFL and some methods and activities that can be used in different teaching contexts. Kim Beadle is the Head of Training and Development at British Council in Mexico City. She has been in EFL for 10 years working as an adult and YL teacher, teacher trainer, examiner and online tutor and has spoken at conferences such as BBELT, MEXTESOL and TEC.
Exploiting video outside the classroom for language learning purposes Philip Haines
W » TT&D › LT » Doña Adelita
Although more and more classrooms are becoming equipped with video technology, it is still not a standard. However, the lack of video playing equipment within the classroom doesn’t mean that teachers should forget about the medium. Most students have easy access to video material outside the classroom. What teachers need are the ideas for how to exploit it for language learning purpose. This workshop will offer and explore such ideas. Philip Haines is teacher trainer, ELT author, and international conference speaker. He has been living in Mexico City since he moved there from the UK in 1995. He has a particular interest in material and activity design. Philip works as the Senior Academic Consultant for Oxford University Press, Mexico.
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